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Astavakra Samhita
(Astavakra Gita)
Translated by Swami Nityaswarupananda
2. Joy of Self-realization
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Janaka said –
1. Oh, I am spotless, tranquil, Pure Consciousness, and beyond Nature. All this time I have been mocked by illusion.
2. As I alone reveal this body, even so do I reveal this universe. Therefore mine is all this universe, or verily nothing is mine.
3. Oh, having renounced the universe together with the body, I now perceive the Supreme Self through the secret of wisdom.
4. As waves, foam and bubbles are not different from water, so the universe emanating from the Self is not different from It.
5. As cloth, when analyzed, is found to be nothing but thread, so this universe, when analyzed, is nothing but the Self.
6. Just as sugar generated in sugarcane juice is wholly pervaded by that juice, so the universe produced in Me is permeated by Me through and through.
7. The world appears from the ignorance of the Self and disappears with the knowledge of the Self, just as the snake appears from the non-cognition of the rope and disappears with its recognition.
8. Light is my very nature and I am no other than light. When the universe manifests itself, verily then it is I that shine.
9. O, the universe appears in me, conceived through ignorance, just as silver appears in the mother of pearl, a snake in the rope, and water in the sunbeam.
10. Just as a jug dissolves into clay, a wave into water, or a bracelet into gold, so the universe which has emanated from me will dissolve into me.
11. Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who know no decay and survive even the destruction of the world, from Brahma down to a clump of grass.
12. Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who, though with a body, am One, who neither go anywhere nor come from anywhere but abide pervading the universe.
13. Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself! There is none so capable as I, who am bearing the universe for all eternity without touching it with the body.
14. Wonderful am I! Adoration to myself who have nothing or have all that is thought and spoken of.
15. Knowledge, knower and the knowable – these three do not exist in reality. I am that stainless Self in which this triad appears through ignorance.
16. Oh, the root of misery is duality. There is no other remedy for it except the realization that all objects of experience are unreal and that I am pure, One, Consciousness, and Bliss.
17. I am pure Consciousness. Through ignorance I have imposed limitations upon myself. Constantly reflecting in this way, I am abiding in the Absolute.
18. I have neither bondage nor freedom. Having lost its support, the illusion has ceased. Oh, the universe, though existing in me, does not in reality so exist.
19. I have known for certain that the body and the universe are nothing and that the Atman is Pure Consciousness alone. So on what is it now possible to base imagination?
20. Body, heaven and hell, bondage and freedom, as also fear, all these are mere imagination. What have I to do with all these I whose nature is Pure Consciousness?
21. Oh, I do not find any duality. Even the multitude of human beings, therefore, has become like a wilderness. To what should I attach myself?
22. I am not this body, nor have I a body. I am not Jiva, I am Pure Consciousness. This indeed was my bondage that I had thirst for life.
23. Oh, in me, the limitless ocean, on the rising of the wind of the mind, diverse waves of worlds are produced forthwith.
24. With the calming of the wind of the mind in the infinite ocean of myself, the ark of the universe, unfortunately for Jiva, the trader, meets destruction.
25. How wonderful! In me, the shoreless ocean, the waves of individual selves, according to their nature, rise, strike each other, play for a time and disappear.